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Student arrested for hacking Prime Minister’s Twitter account

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Bangkok, Chulalongkorn University, Confidence trick, facebook, gmail, prime minister, Spam, Student, Thailand, twitter, Yingluck Shinawatra, Yingluck Shinawatra twitter hacked Leave a Comment

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Police in Thailand have arrested a university student who is said to have admitted hacking into the Prime Minister’s Twitter account and posting messages accusing her of incompetence.

22-year-old Aekawit Thongdeeworakul, a fourth year architecture student at Chulalongkorn University, could face up to two years in prison if found guilty of illegally accessing computer systems without authorisation.

Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, had her Twitter account hacked last weekend – and her followers saw a stream of messages criticising her leadership.

Google Plus Problems

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Bradley Horowitz, comScore, Find People, google, google plus, Google Plus Complaints, Google Plus Issues, Google Plus Problems, Google Plus Social Network, Google Social Network, Google+ Complaints, Google+ Issues, Google+ Problems, LinkedIn, Robert Scoble, social network, Sydney Morning Herald, twitter 1 Comment

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Google+ opened its doors to the public on September 20 after 12 weeks of invite-only beta testing. During that time, despite limited signup allowances, Google’s social network exploded in popularity. In late July, the site notched its 25 millionth new account, prompting ComScore to declared it the fastest-growing social network ever.

The site continues to add members, but it’s still dwarfed by the user pools of more established networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Facebook, the mother of all social networks, in September boasted over 800 million active accounts. LinkedIn reported way back in March 2011 that it had accumulated 100 million users, and Twitter’s recent figures numbered its user accounts at 100 million.

Women Use Social Media More Than Men

Category: Social, Technology Tags: Andreas Bernstrom, Communication, facebook, Harris Interactive, Harris Interactive Study, LinkedIn, Mobile VoIP, Rebtel, Rebtel Study, social media, Social network service, twitter, Women Social Media, Women Social Media Habits, Women Social Networking 1 Comment

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Rebtel, a mobile VoIP company, commissioned a study from research firm Harris Interactive on the social networking habits of men and women. The researchers, who looked at the communication habits of 2,361 adults aged 18 and over, found that women are significantly more likely to use online social networks, like Facebook or twitter, to communicate with friends, family, and co-workers. A whopping 68 percent of womenuse social media to stay in touch with friends, as opposed to 54 percent of men.

“Our findings show that men tend to lag behind women when it comes to communicating with others through social media, which debunks other recent studies that suggest that men are more savvy networkers between the sexes,” Rebtel‘s CEO Andreas Bernstrom said in a statement.

How To Use The New Facebook To See Who Unfriends You

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For many, being “unfriended” is a fate worse than death.

But it’s not something you’d know about right away.

In previous versions of Facebook, there was no easy way to see which of your “friends” had decided to sever your relationship on the social network. Sure, you could always go to their profile to check, but that required the effort of remembering who they were.

While “old Facebook” made the online friendship breakup a bit less-in-your-face, the new Facebook Timelinemakes it way easier to see who’s decided to ax your online friendship.

If you’ve already enabled your new profile, you can check it out right now.

Google Maps Adds Google+ Snippets

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Google Maps is adding a new feature that will tie the product more closely to the company’s social network, Google+.

The feature, called +snippets, lets users share data from Google Maps using an extension of the +1 sharing button. Google rolled out snippets in August and explained how they work in a post on the Google Blog: “When you share content from the +1 button, you’ll notice that we automatically include a link, an image and a description in the sharebox.”

Now, when you’re browsing Google Maps while signed in to your Google+ account, you can click the “Share” button on the right-hand side of the Google nav bar. A dropdown menu will let you add text, choose whom from your Circles to share with and more.

Facebook’s ‘Subscribe’ Button

Category: Social, Technology Tags: facebook, Facebook Button, Facebook features, Facebook Guide, Facebook Subscribe Button, Facebook Subscriber, Facebook Tips, Friend, Friends, Our News Feeds, social network, Social network service, Subscription business model, twitter, Updates, Web feed 1 Comment

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In a blog post published Wednesday, Facebook announced that it would begin rolling out the “subscribe button,” a tool that offers users a new way to interact with one another, as well as more of a say over the information that appears in their News Feeds.

“Our mission is to connect people and help them share. The goal of this new feature really is to give people more control over how they do that,” Naomi Gleit, Facebook’s director of product, told the Huffington Post.

As Huffington Post wrote here, the just-announced setting, which lets Facebook operate more like Twitter by enabling people to “follow” public figures, could have important effects on etiquette, sharing, and the way people connect on Facebook.

Facebook will begin rolling out the “subscribe” button to all users starting September 14.

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